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eCommerce carts need to be usable and accessible for all visitors. Your goal is to increase conversions and keep people engaged during checkout, and the best way to do this is with a clean design that encourages user activity.
There are many free open source shopping carts you can restyle for any purpose. And we’ve taken the liberty of collecting our favorites in this collection.
Flat Cart
There’s no denying the popularity of flat design. It works for all types of websites, and it helps designers focus more on usability rather than aesthetics.
That’s why this flat cart makes an excellent resource for anyone building an eCommerce checkout page. The colors are easy to update and the interface features work the same regardless of layout style.
I don’t think flat design is the solution for every project, but in the right scenario this pen can work well as a starting template.
See the Pen Flat Cart [codepen comp] by Will Paige
Table-Free UI
Many checkout pages use tables to organize data but this example by Alex Rodrigues uses DIVs instead.
It is fully responsive, so the layout should look great no matter what device you’re using. Each row holds enough data to restyle properly and keep everything organized, even on super small screens. And the CSS code uses Compass to save time along with free Google Fonts for a little style.
See the Pen Responsive Table-less Shopping Cart by alex rodrigues
Delicious Shopping Cart
I can’t imagine this working on a real site but as a UI/UX experiment it is pretty cool. The self-titled Delicious Shopping Cart acts like an online bakery/sweets store with photos of different desserts.
You can move your cursor left/right to advance through the carousel or swipe on a mobile device. Each item has plus/minus icons for adding items or removing them from your order, plus an ‘X’ icon to remove it entirely from your cart.
The whole thing is built on Sass, Slim, and jQuery, so it’s one heck of a frontend project! If you’re looking to dissect some great code, this example is worth saving.
See the Pen Delicious Shopping Cart by Didier
Responsive Design
Here’s another simple responsive shopping cart UI built on Sass and table-free.
I like this responsive checkout a little more than the others because the breakpoints feel more natural. Even on smaller screens, the cart items don’t feel cramped or out of place.
All of the “remove” buttons work through JavaScript, and the numeric input fields auto-update pricing. This is great for a frontend cart page where the buyer may want to increase quantities before paying and to see an estimate of the total costs.
See the Pen Responsive Shopping Cart by Justin Klemm
jQuery Shopping Basket
This pen acts more like a wireframe than a full checkout page but it’s perfect as a starting point. Developer Khurram Alvi created this responsive shopping cart with basic HTML/CSS and a little jQuery.
It is fully responsive, and the quantity inputs work as you’d expect. One nice thing is the simplicity of this cart’s design. It doesn’t impose any colors, fonts, or textures into the layout. Anyone looking to build a new cart from scratch might start here because it’s easy to build onto and restructure.
See the Pen Responsive jQuery Shopping Basket by Khurram Alvi
Challenge Cart
Every so often new CodePen challenges pop up asking developers to create different interfaces like signup pages or modal windows. This pen by Žiga Miklič came from a challenge for shopping cart UIs and it’s a masterpiece of frontend development.
When you add/remove items from the cart, you’ll notice the prices automatically update with a small sliding animation. You can also click any product image to remove it from the cart with ease. These small features add a lot to the interface and make cloning a breeze.
Even the checkout function has its own animated feature, although it’s not connected to anything on the backend.
See the Pen Shopping cart [ CodePen Challange ] by Žiga Miklič
Sliding Cart UI
Tabbed widgets let you add content onto a single page and give users the power over that content. In this sliding cart you can switch between the cart itself and a list of saved “favorite” items.
None of the checkout features actually work, so you can’t favorite or add/remove items into the cart. But the interface items are in place, so a little JavaScript magic would fix that. Still, I’m impressed with how clean this cart looks and the unique-yet-usable tab interface.
See the Pen Shopping cart (responsive) by Alex
Dynamic Store & Cart
Mixing the store and shopping cart into one interface is a tough job but Olivia Cheng got it done in this pen.
It uses wide thumbnails in a grid set up with an “add to cart” button on hover. Click this to add the item above with auto-updating prices. One unique feature is the quantity added on top of the item thumbnail. This might get confusing on a real cart, but if the numbers were a bit smaller, this would be a great way to save space.
See the Pen Sliding Shopping Cart & Store by Olivia Cheng
Clean Shopping Cart
Developer Bart Veneman created this clean shopping cart as a simple interface template. It auto-calculates the total price and even includes taxes near the checkout button.
All of these dynamic features work through JavaScript and surprisingly this pen uses Zepto over jQuery. This is great for devs who prefer the Zepto library, but really anyone could pick up this code and rework it to suit any template.
See the Pen Shopping Cart by Bart Veneman
Simple Cart with Vue.js
Frontend coding with Vue.js makes templating a whole lot simpler. And this pen is one example of a dynamic cart practically built on a JavaScript foundation.
The cart auto-updates with each click so you can add/remove items and see results instantly. The top-right button opens your current cart in a modal window using Bootstrap’s modal component.
If you like the Vue.js syntax, then this template is a great place to start building a shopping cart. It’s easy to customize and should work well in all browsers.
See the Pen VueJS 2 Simple Shopping cart by Cristian Matos
Domain Cart
Here’s one of my favorite shopping cart designs modeled after a domain registrar. Coder Jesse Bilsten got detailed with this interface including a payment section and a required T&C area.
You have to click the “I agree” button before completing the checkout process. It’s a minor yet valuable feature for some eCommerce sites, and I really like the two-column layout. And this design is totally responsive so you can clone it for use in pretty much any eCommerce system.
See the Pen Responsive Shopping Cart – Brand v01 by Jesse Bilsten
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